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President U Thein Sein poses for documentary photo with Home Affairs and Communications Minister of Japan Mr. Yoshitaka Shindo. MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan President U Thein Sein and Japanese House of Representatives member and Chairman of the Japan-Myanmar Parliamentarian Friendship League Mr. Ichiro Aisawa held talks on cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency-
JICA and Official Development Assistance loans from Japan. During the meeting at the Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace here this morning, they also discussed matters related to opening Japanese bank branches in Myanmar. JICA cooperates with
the government in building basic infrastructure projects and providing safe drinking water in Myanmar. ODA Loans and assistance from Japan are used for infrastructure projects, including railroads, airports and urban development. MNA edited by KW
Jade and uncut gem sales in Nay Pyi Taw a hit with foreign merchants
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan The fourth day of sales of uncut gemstones and jade lots in Nay Pyi Taw has seen an increase in bidders from other countries, mainly China. The Mani Yadana Jade Hall this morning was packed with merchants waiting for the winners of the open tenders for jade lots No. 1 to 1,400 to be announced.According to officials, bidding for the jade lots 1,401 to 2, 839 will start Friday.MNA edited by Kerstin Winter
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Women giving birth on 66th Independence Day given gifts in Kyunhla Township
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Myanmar prepares to host 36th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan Myanmar is preparing to host the 36th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry and other related meetings this year. At the coordination meeting for the preparation of hosting the meetings held at the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation here today, Union Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlaing expressed his hope that the upcoming ASEAN meetings in Myanmar will meet international standards. Agricultural produce, forest products and livestock farming products from Myanmar will be exhibited at the meetings as part of efforts to find foreign markets for Myanmar exports. MNA/edited by KW
Environmental Conservation
An official presents 322 sets of uniforms to members of auxiliary fire brigade from wards and village-tracts in Kyauktan Township, Yangon South District, on 9 January. KYEMON-NAN AYE KHAING (IPRD)
WORLD
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and his wife Akie (R) wave on 9 Jan, 2014, as they leave from Tokyos Haneda Airport to embark on a weeklong trip to four countries of the Middle East and Africa Oman, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Ethiopia. KYODO NEWS hold summits and deliver speeches, aiming to promote assistance in areas such as support for local infrastructure and personnel training for rapidly growing economies in the region. China has also been increasing its presence in development assistance for Africa with significant amounts of financial aid, apparently prompting Japan to accelerate its efforts not to fall behind its rival. Abe will return to Tokyo on Wednesday. Kyodo News
UNItED NAtIONS, 9 Jan Negotiations between Iran and six world powers on implementing a landmark November deal to freeze parts of Teherans nuclear programme in exchange for easing some sanctions have run into problems over advanced centrifuge research, diplomats said. The dispute over centrifuges highlighted the huge challenges facing Iran and the six powers in negotiating the precise terms of the 24 November interim agreement. If they succeed, they plan to start talks on a
of a new model of advanced nuclear centrifuge that Iran says it has installed, diplomats said on condition of anonymity. Centrifuges are machines that purify uranium for use as fuel in atomic power plants or, if purified to a high level, weapons. This issue (centrifuges) was among the main factors in stopping the previous technical discussions on 19-21 December, a Western diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Other Western diplomats confirmed that centrifuges
BANGKOK, 9 Jan Protesters trying to topple Thailands prime minister marched in Bangkok again on Thursday,
without serving jail time for corruption. On Thursday, the protesters marched from their camp at Democracy Monument in the historic quarter, drumming up support for Monday when they plan to blockade main roads and prevent government ministries from functioning. The turmoil is the latest twist in a conflict pitting Bangkoks middle class and royalist establishment against the mostly rural supporters of Yingluck and Thaksin, who was ousted as prime minister in a military coup in 2006. Reuters
(L-R) Chinas Foreign Minister Wang Yi, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Frances Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 14 Nov, 2013.REUTErS long-term deal to resolve a remained a sticking point more than decade-long dis- in the talks with Iran but pute over Teherans nuclear noted that last months disambitions. cussions were understandAmong the issues to be ably adjourned ahead of the resolved in political discus- December holidays not sions due to begin in Gene- because of the centrifuge va later this week is that of issue. research and development Reuters
state. The head of Russias Olympic Committee has said no more can be done to safeguard the Games because every measure possible is already in place. Russian forces went on combat alert in Sochi on Tuesday and about 37,000 personnel are now in place to provide security at the Games, Russian officials say. Reuters Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Mitsubishi Materials Corp. plant in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on 9 Jan, 2014. Five people died and 12 others were injured in an explosion at the plant the same day.KYODO NEWS
Norway hopes for resumption of peace talks between Philippine govt, leftist rebels
MANILA, 9 Jan Visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende expressed hope on Thursday that the Philippine government and leftist rebel group Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) will resume stalled peace talks in the coming months. Norway is the mediator in peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the leftist rebels. Were committed to continue as facilitator in (peace talks) as long as this is the interest of the government of the Philippines, Brende told reporters in an interview. He said he will be discussing opportunities to resume the stalled negotiations during his meeting with Philippine President Benigno S Aquino III in the afternoon. I think the presidency of Aquino is here for several years and we are looking into the opportunity to resume talks in the future, said Brende. Talks between the Philippine government and the CPPs negotiating arm, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, has been suspended since 2011 over the leftist rebels demand for the release of some of their detained commanders.Xinhua
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) meets with Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on 8 Jan, 2014, the last day of his three-day visit to Japan. KYODO NEWS
A worker is seen at the construction site of the Panama Canal Expansion project on the outskirts of Colon City on 7 Jan, 2014.REUTErS and people, he said of the company could be trying to wrest control of the project. contingency plan. There was no immeThe project was originally expected to cost about diate word from Sacyr on $5.25 billion, but the over- Impregilos move. Halting runs could raise it to near construction on the project $7 billion. Impregilos would be a setback for comproposal showed signs of panies eager to move larger a split in the consortium ships through the centurythat has been expanding old waterway such as liqthe canal. People familiar uefied natural gas (LNG) with the discussions said producers who want to ship that Impregilo perceived exports from the US Gulf Sacyr as too soft in nego- coast to Asian markets. Reuters tiations and said the Italian
An oil tanker is seen at the port and Zawiya Oil Refinery, 55 km (34 miles) west of the city of Tripoli in this 22 Aug, 2013 file photo. REUTErS The confrontation is a major challenge two years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, where former rebels, militias and tribesman have all resorted to force to make demands on a state that is still mapping out the new democracy. In the east, the Cyrenaica regional authority and its armed protesters have taken over Ras Lanuf, Es Sider and Zueitina ports, which previously accounted for 600,000 barrels per day in crude exports. On Monday, the Libyan navy said it fired warning shots at a Maltese-flagged tanker trying to reach Libya to load oil at Es-Sider, but the tankers owners accused Libya forces of firing on them in international waters. Reuters
TOKYO, 9 Jan A Bank of Japan policymaker said on Thursday the central bank should further ease its monetary policy without hesitation if the economy and prices are judged to move considerably below its projection. I believe additional monetary easing measures should be taken without hesitation so as not to jeopardize the BOJs credibility, whenever downside risks to the BOJs baseline scenario are judged to have materialized, Sayuri Shirai said in her speech in Singapore, according to the text released by the BOJ. The central bank introduced large-scale monetary easing policy in April last year, aiming to achieve 2
BOJ policymaker calls for more easing if prices move below forecast
percent inflation in about two years. Japans consumer prices excluding fresh foods rose 1.2 percent in November from a year before for the sixth straight month of increase. Despite the continued increase in consumer prices, Shirai said there may be high uncertainty about meeting the goal in about two years due to consumers concern about a rapid decline in real disposable income as well as firms cautiousness about raising sales prices. I personally consider that it may take some time before the impact of monetary easing fully materializes, she said. Kyodo News
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Two P3C Orion surveillance planes operated by Japans Maritime Self-Defence Force fly over the sea off the Kerama Islands in the Japanese southernmost prefecture of Okinawa for training on 8 Jan, 2014. The drill, the first of this year, was open to the media and three P3Cs took part.KYODO NEWS
US President Barack Obama waves after he urges Congress to act and extend emergency unemployment insurance benefits while at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on 7 Jan, 2014.REUTErS WASHINGtON, 9 Jan President Barack Obama consulted intelligence officials on Wednesday on ways to rein in US surveillance practices as he nears the end of a review likely to lead to changes as to how bulk telephone data is
how we move forward with key intelligence collection programs, said Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council. Obama also met with members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a bipartisan independent panel that has been reviewing US surveillance practices, including the collection of telephone data and the operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The privacy oversight board said it would offer its findings to Obama in late January or early February, meaning its recommendations will not get to the president until after he has already announced his reform plans. Obama is due to meet several US lawmakers on Thursday as he firms up his review.Reuters
A tank is transported towards Anbar, to reinforce Iraqi troops in the province, west of Baghdad, on 6 Jan, 2014.REUTErS BAGHDAD, 9 Jan Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to eradicate al-Qaeda in Iraq and predicted victory as his army prepared to launch a major assault against the Sunni Islamist militants
In a televised address on Wednesday, Maliki also thanked the international community for its support in the fight against al-Qaeda and urged the groups members and supporters to surrender, promising clemency. The prime minister spoke for the second time this week with US Vice President Joe Biden, the White House said in a statement. Biden urged Maliki to keep working with local leaders and welcomed a decision to compensate tribal militiamen who may be wounded or killed in action against ISIL.Reuters
People participate in an aerobics class at the gymnasium of a sports centre in Cartago, east of San Jose in this 10 July, 2012 file photo.REUTErS marketed. Such voluntary efforts by industry are not a magic bullet, said Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for Americas Health, a non-profit policy group. Particularly with kids, there is a role for regulation in reducing demand for unhealthy, highcalorie fare. It is not clear yet how the companies accomplished the dramatic calorie reduction, said UNC public health researcher Barry Popkin, who led the analysis funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nations largest public health philanthropy. Some of the decline may have come from the recession, as financially-strapped families cut back on junk food. Reuters
A pedestrian walks past electronic boards showing the picture of Japanese 10000 yen banknotes and 100 US dollar banknotes outside a brokerage in Tokyo on 9 Jan, 2014.REUTErS
Backdropped by Earth, the International Space Station is seen in this image photographed by an STS-130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation, in this undated NASA handout photo. REUTErS
Photo taken on 6 Jan, 2014 shows Toyotas FCV hydrogen electric concept car at a media preview event of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the United States, Jan. 6, 2014. Toyota announced the car would be available to US consumers in 2015. XINHUA
A model presents the latest wearable camera equipment of Panasonic at the 2014 international CES in Las Vegas, the United States, on 6 Jan, 2014.XINHUA earpiece named Jarvis, which is Intels answer to the voice-activated Google Now and Apples Siri. Almost all wearable devices are as companions to smartphones. There is one exception that the Neptune Pine is a stand-alone
A Google logo is seen at the entrance to the companys offices in Toronto in this 6 Sept, 2013 file photo.REUTErS
BEIJING, 9 Jan Ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Wednesday it would set up a mobile gaming platform in China, venturing into a fast growing sector dominated by tech rival Tencent Holdings Ltd. Mobile gaming is hugely popular in China, home to the largest number of smartphone users in
would be offered free to developers for the first year. He did not say, however, when it would be set up and the statement gave few other details. Alibaba spokeswoman Florence Shih said the platform would be launched in the near future. Were not making mobile games, were the platform operator, she added. A person familiar with the matter said the platform may have its own dedicated app or could be integrated into existing Alibaba apps such as e-commerce app Mobile Taobao or Laiwang, a social messaging app. Reuters
Myanmar Gazette
Friday, 10 January, 2014
NAY PYI TAW, 9 JanThe President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has confirmed the appointment of the following heads of service organizations on expiry of the one-year probationary period. Name (a) U Tin Tun (b) Dr Myo Thein Gyi Appointment Director-General Union Election Commis- sion Office Director-General Department of Myanmar Education Research Bureau Ministry of Education
(c) U Ko Ko Tin Director-General Educational Planning and Training Department Ministry of Education (d) U Kyaw Swa Soe Director-General Advanced Science and Technology Department Ministry of Science and Technology (e) U Win Khaing Moe Director-General Myanma Advanced Science and Technology Research Department Ministry of Science and Technology
Patron of Myanmar Womens Sports Federation Daw Khin Khin Win and party cordially greet Myanmar athletes for 7th ASEAN Para Games.MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan Union Attorney-General Dr Tun Shin held a meeting with Associate Vice-President Colette L. Rausch of the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace this morning to discuss ways of implementing rule of law in Myanmar. The Union attorneygeneral said that Myanmar has hosted workshops and seminars for legal experts, adding that Myanmar is striving for rule of law and dissemination of the concept of rule of law to the people across the country in coordination with UNDP, Allen & Overy and IJC. MNA edited by KW
Acting Union Education Minister discusses contamination of ground water with U.S. expert
NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan Acting Union Minister for Education Dr Myo Myint met with a Research Professor from the LamontDoherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University yesterday to discuss arsenic contamination of groundwater and ways to deal with the issue. Prof. Alexander Van Geen elaborated on cooperation possibilities and projects aimed at reducing arsenic contamination of groundwater with the support of the Geography and Geology Departments from Yangon, Sittway and Pathein Universities in collaboration with Columbia University. MNA edited by KW
Union Attorney-General Dr Tun Shin meets Associate Vice-President Colette L. Rausch of the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace.MNA
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Youth Activity
Scout training underway in Kyunhla Township
and the handling of interdistrict roads to Public Works. Locals from Natogyi Township asked about an extension of the Myingyan-NatogyiYaywun road section and tarmacking of roads. Deputy Minister U Soe Tint reassured the locals that the deputy ministers would return again to meet the requirements of the local people.MMAL-Zaw Min Naing (Myingyan) edited by KW
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Talk on literature held for Pyay residents
Women giving birth on 66th Independence Day given gifts in Kyunhla Township
NATOGYI, 9 JanMore than 100 young people at Letwe Myinni Basic Education High School in Kyunhla Township have participated in a several training on 7 January. They practiced building makeshift shelters among other activities. They have also received training to be able to participate in the scout activities. They have had endurance training, including a 20-mile walk, said school official Daw Nyein Nyein Aye, who is in charge of the activity. Among all the schools in Kyunhla Township, students of the Letwe Myinni Basic Education High School were the first to take the opportunity to join the scout organization. The school set up a scout squad with 100 middle school students. It was the first time in 50 years, that Myanmar has organized scout activities. MMAL-Khin Zar Mon Myint (Law) edited by KW K Y U N H L A , 9 Jan Women who gave birth on the 66 th Anniversary of Independence Day on 4 January have received gifts by the Kyunhla Township Maternal and Child Welfare Association. Chairman Daw Htar Htar Aye presented the gifts on 7 January during a ceremony at the maternity ward of the Peoples Hospital in Kyunhla Township, Sagaing Region. Township medical officer Dr Saw San Htay and his staff successfully performed several C-sections on 4 January. Daw Oo of Inma Village gave birth to twin girls weighing five pounds each, Daw Nyo Nyo of Nyauggaing Village had a baby boy weighing six pounds and Daw Phyu Phyu of Kyar-in Village from Kawlin Township, gave birth to a boy weighing 7.5 pounds. MMAL-Myo Win Nyo (Kyunhla) edited by KW
PYAY, 9 JanTo mark Myanmar Literary Day, a talk on literature was organized in Pyay, a city in western Bago Region, by the Pyay Township Writers Association and the Fortune Life Computer Centre on 6
January. Many residents attended the talk given by writers Tharawun from Pyay, Mya Hnaung Nyo and Lin Thaik Nyunt from the Myanmar Land. Part of the event was an award ceremony for the best essays and arts performance by residents, with Chairperson of the association Dr Yin Wai Lwin presenting prizes. Following the talks, several donors handed over cash donations to the township library.MMAL-U Shwe Win edited by KW
Fire
Fire causes loss of property worth K 5.7 million
P HAKANT , 9 JanA fire broke out at a house in Ward 3 of Lonkhin Village of Phakant Township, Myitkyina District, Kachin State, in the north of the nation, at 9 a.m. on 2 January. The fire was triggered by a cheroot left in the bedroom of the house at No. 48/B in Ward 3. The fire caused loss of property worth K 5.7 million. Commander of the local military division Brig-Gen Thaik Soe supervised putting out the fire, which was handled by fire fighters and local people using four fire trucks. The fire was put out within one hour without engulfing other buildings. Lonkhin Police Station filed a lawsuit over negligence. MMAL-Soe Naing Oo (Phakant) Edited by KW
As part of preventive measures against dengue hemorrhagic fever, workers of Yangon City Development Committee headed by Assistant Administrator of YCDC and health staff Daw Ohnma Lwin together with local authorities performed fumigation at streets and drains in Ward 94 of Yuzana Garden City in Dagon Myothit (Seikkan) Township of Yangon Region on 8 January.MMAL-081
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White House defends Biden, Obama over former Pentagon chiefs memoir controversy
WaSHINGTON, 9 Jan The White House on Wednesday continued to defend Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama amid an escalating controversy over former Defence Secretary Robert Gates new memoir. Questions related to Gates criticism in his new memoir against Biden, Obama and top aides in the White House dominated the White House daily briefing on Wednesday. White House spokesman Jay Carney stressed that Obama and the rest of the White House team simply just disagree with that assessment of Gates about Biden. Gates unleashed severe criticism against Biden, according to excerpts of the book which were released by several leading US newspapers on Tuesday and Wednesday. I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades, Gates wrote. In defending Biden, Carney said, As a senator and as a vice president, Joe Biden has been one of the leading statesmen of his time and he has been an excellent counselor and adviser to the president for the past five years. In his memoir, Gates also doubted Obamas leadership and commitment to his own Afghanistan strategy and accused the White House staff of being too controlling over national security issues, who took micromanagement and operational meddling to a new level. Gates described a pivotal meeting in March 2011 to discuss the US withdrawal timetable. As I sat there, I thought: The president doesnt trust his commander, cant stand Karzai, doesnt believe in his own strategy and doesnt consider the war to be his, he wrote. For him, its all about getting out.Xinhua
A person passes by the burnt coaches of Mumbai-Dehradun Express which caught fire at Dahanu in Thane District of Maharashtra, India, on 8 Jan, 2014. Nine people, including one woman, were charred to death in a major fire which broke out on the express train in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior police officer said.XINHUA
WaRSaw, 9 Jan Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk claimed that Poland will join the 20 richest nations in the world by 2022, local press reported on Wednesday. This would happen thanks to investments made possible by funds from the European Union (EU) allocated for Poland in the years 2014-2020, said Tusk, following the cabinet meeting which approved spending programmes within the current long-term EU budget. Polands GDP per capita should reach 80 percent of the EU average by the year 2022 which would put Poland among the worlds 20 richest nations, he told a Press conference after the meeting. Currently Polands GDP is at 67 percent (of the EU average) and we had more or less 50 percent at the start when Poland joined the EU in 2004, he added. Tusk said that EU funds for Poland would reach almost 500 billion PLN (170 million US dollars) in the years 2014-2020.Xinhua
negatively interfering with plea negotiations with the government. But Netburn ruled that Arshack had only sought a delay of the preliminary hearing and that such an extension would not alter the deadline for filing an indictment. Arshack said he and his client are considering their
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Photo shows former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. He is considering running in the 9 Feb, 2014, Tokyo gubernatorial election, sources close to him said on 9 Jan. KYODO NEWS Hosokawa, who served as prime minister between August 1993 and April 1994, has been away from politics since he resigned as a House of Representatives member in May 1998. He made his antinuclear stance clear following the tsunami-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in March 2011. Among those running for the Tokyo governorship are Kenji Utsunomiya, a former head of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and former Air Self-Defence Force chief Toshio Tamogami. Official campaigning for the election to choose Naoki Inoses successor is scheduled to start 23 January. Inose resigned last month over his receipt of 50 million yen from scandal-tainted hospital chain Tokushukai.Kyodo News
Photo taken on 8 Jan, 2014 shows a tiger in a woven bag in downtown Wenzhou City, east Chinas Zhejiang Province. An alleged amur tiger was found dead in downtown Wenzhou, the owner of which was summoned by local police for further investigation. XInHUA
MANILA, 9 Jan The Philippine government assured on Wednesday that security measures have been in place for the annual feast of the Black Nazarene in Manila city where hundreds of thousands of devotees are expected to flock to on Thursday. Philippine Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said that police and traffic personnel have been deployed to ensure the safety and smooth flow of the Black Nazarenes procession from Quirino Grandstand to Quiapo Church, both in Manila, a city of Philippine capital of Metro Manila. He said there is no plan to jam phone signals in areas where the procession
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TUNIS, 9 Jan The Egyptian community in Tunisia, along with their compatriots all over the world, started casting ballots on their nations new draft constitution on Wednesday, Egyptian Ambassador to Tunis Ayman Mousharafa said. The vote, held at the Egyptian embassies in foreign countries, will go on until 12 January. About 171 Egyptians are registered as voters in Tunisia. They will have to vote on the new constitution at the embassy in Tunis between 8 and 12 January, Ayman Mousharafa said. The number of the
overseas Egyptian in Tunisia is around 800, according to the press office of the Egyptian Embassy in Tunis. Mousharafa said the new constitution will represent the interests of all Egyptians and thus will grant the needed balance to allow the nation to succeed in achieving what is left in its political transition. The vote in Tunis took place in good logistic and security conditions amid additional security measures around the embassy. The referendum on the new constitution will take place in Egypt on the 14-15 January.Xinhua
Two foreign tourists participate in a carnival activity at Zhujiajiao Town of Qingpu District in east Chinas Shanghai, on 29 Sep, 2008. Rural tourism becomes more and more popular in China in recent years. According to China National Tourism Administration, rural tourism received 720 million visitors with an income of 216 billion yuan (35.68 US billion dollars) in 2012.XINHUA
WASHINGTON, 9 Jan US President Barack Obama on Wednesday wished German Chancellor Angela Merkel a speedy recovery from her injury sustained in a skiing accident in December, as Washington is trying to rebuild trust with Berlin and other allies damaged by extensive US spying. In their conversation over the phone, Obama also congratulated the chancellor on her formation of a new cabinet, the White House said in a readout of the talks. It said the two leaders discussed their agenda for 2014, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations and a NATO summit, and looked forward to working closely together to advance our shared interests.
HAVANA, 9 Jan Cuba plans to partially privatize its taxi service as part of the countrys recent economic reforms to streamline a bloated public sector and make such service more efficient, the Government Gazette announced on Wednesday. Cubas taxi drivers, who up to now have worked as employees of the state-run taxi service, will become self-employed workers who lease their cars from the state. This plan was made after the success of a pilot project carried out in the capital Havana since 2010 and at the beach resort of Varadero since 2011, official daily Granma reported, adding the privatization plan would be implemented gradually around the country. Debora Canela Pina, an expert from Cuban Transportation Ministry, was sure that the change would lead to improvement in the
quality of taxi service in Cuba. More than just changing the appearance of taxis, the new scheme forms part of an operating model that changes the companies structures, their administrative personnel and taxi drivers, with the fundamental aim of raising the quality of services being offered today, she said. The new model considerably decreases the amount of time clients wait after requesting the service and maintains the obligation of using a taximeter or official rate, she added. In the future, drivers will be in charge of taxis maintenance, fuel and repairs and can decide how many hours to work. Passengers will be able to pay in Cuban pesos or US dollars. The new model is set to be put into practice nationwide by the end of 2014. Xinhua
major role in the regions efforts to fight and control air pollution. Unlike the Pearl River Delta region, which consists mainly of cities in Guangdong Province, the Yangtze River Delta region involves three provinces and a municipality, and a mechanism covering so many different areas is a real breakthrough, he added. Scientific studies have demonstrated that pollutants generated in one area can be delivered to other areas in the same region, and regional authorities wont succeed in fighting pollution by making individual efforts alone, he said. Xinhua
Actress Kaley Cuoco poses with the favorite comedic TV actress award in the Big Bang Theory at the 2014 Peoples Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California on 8 Jan, 2014.REUTErS kicks off Hollywoods annual awards season that culminates with the Academy Awards on 2 March. Kaley Cuoco won her first Peoples Choice award for favourite comedy TV actress for her role as the ditzy Penny in CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Chris Colfer won favorite comedic TV actor for a second year running, for his role as Kurt Hummel in Foxs Glee. The Big Bang Theory won favourite network TV comedy for a third time, while fellow CBS show The Good Wife was named favorite network TV drama. Ellen DeGeneres won favorite daytime TV host for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, picking up a record 14th Peoples Choice award. Satirist Stephen Colbert picked up favorite late night talk show host for Comedy Centrals The Colbert Report. Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson was awarded favorite humanitarian for her charity work with her Julian D. King Gift Foundation, in memory of her late nephew. Its one thing to be a celebrity and have power ... but it means nothing if were not helping someone else. It also feels good to see positivity acknowledged, Hudson said emotionally. The 40th Peoples Choice awards opened with a skit featuring many of the nights nominees sitting in 2 Broke Girls diner set, being served by the shows stars and awards hosts Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs. Dennings and Behrs then kicked off the show by having a bevy of waitresses serve burgers to the audience. Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, country star Brad Paisley and poprock group OneRepublic provided the musical entertainment, while Drew Barrymore, Matt LeBlanc and Zac Efron were among the nights many presenters. Reuters
Actress Drew Barrymore presents the award for favorite comedic movie actor to Adam Sandler at the 2014 Peoples Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California on 8 Jan, 2014.REUTErS LOS ANGElES, 9 Jan Actress Sandra Bullock swept the 40th Peoples Choice awards on Wednesday with four wins, cementing her status as a favourite among the fan-selected winners, while singer Justin Timberlake dominated the music categories with three wins. Bullock, 49, picked up three awards for favourite movie actress, dramatic movie actress and comedy movie actress for her roles in existential space drama Gravity and in female buddy-comedy The Heat. She also won favorite movie duo alongside her Gravity co-star George Clooney, while the film won favorite drama movie. An actor cant do what they do without hundreds of amazing people working for them and alongside them. I learned so much this year. I got to work with Melissa McCarthy on The Heat. ... And on Gravity, the nicest people in the
Britney Spears accepts the award for favorite pop artist at the 2014 Peoples Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California on 8 Jan, 2014. REUTErS The Peoples Choice winners are chosen by fans, who can vote online across 58 categories spanning film, TV and music. This year, more than 700 million votes were cast, organizers said. The ceremony, aired live on the CBS network,
Actress Juliana Marguiles accepts the award for favorite network TV drama for her show The Good Wife at the 2014 Peoples Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California on 8 Jan, 2014.REUTErS
Singer Beyonce tive weeks over the US Christmas and New Years holiday period. No new albums cracked the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart this week, following a quiet release week in the first week of the year. Overall album sales totaled 5.4 million over the past week, down 43 percent from the comparable sales week in 2013, Billboard said. Reuters
LOS ANGElES, 9 Jan A film on the life of international celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is being planned and actress Angelina Jolie, who is said to be completely gripped by the formers life, might play the lead in
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were about to get a bit better. You need a little bit of good fortune to go for you, and it looks as if were not getting enough of that at the moment. I can sense in the dressing-room that theres an urge to fight our current position. Uniteds fans booed them off the pitch following their cup defeat by Swansea, but it was a different story at the Stadium of Light where they made an effort to rally behind Moyess cause, singing his name despite their teams limp performance. Moyes described their support as exceptional,
Manchester United manager David Moyes but is well aware that it is a results business and those in the boardroom as well as on the terraces will soon start demanding an upturn in fortunes. Reuters
LONDON, 9 Jan Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermain Defoe is poised to sign for Major League Soccer side Toronto FC, British and Canadian media reported on Wednesday. The MLS club posted messages on their website and Twitter warning fans to expect a bloody big deal on Monday. British newspaper the Guardian and Canadas Toronto Star said the 31-year-old Defoe would be loaned back to Tottenham until 1 March before the start of the MLS season
on 15 March. Defoe, whose former Tottenham team mate Ryan Nelsen is head coach at Toronto, has made few Premier League starts this season, despite the north London clubs goalscoring problems. All Defoes nine goals have come in cup competitions, seven in the Europa League. Defoe, who has played 55 times for England and scored 19 international goals, is in his second spell at Spurs after rejoining the club from Portsmouth in 2009.Reuters
MElBOURNE, 9 Jan Roger Federer traded shots with his hero Rod Laver on Wednesday in the stadium that bears the Australian greats name before promising that his hunger for grand slam titles remains as strong as ever. The 17-times grand slam champion beamed with pride after enjoying a few rallies with the 75-yearold, who was dressed in traditional whites and impressed a packed crowd o with his movement ahead of s on Federers exhibition match Al i b with French world number Xa 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. MADRID, 9 Jan Spain Hitting with Rod Lamidfielder Xabi Alonso has ver for me clearly is an abagreed a two-year con- solute dream come true, tract extension with Real Federer told reporters after Madrid which will keep a crowd-pleasing 6-7(5), the 32-year-old at the club 6-3, 7-5 win over Tsonga until 2016, he announced in the fund-raising event on his Twitter account on for his charity, the Roger Wednesday. In his fifth Federer Foundation. season at Real after joinIts in his arena as ing from Liverpool in 2009, well, its named after him Alonso posted a photo of and he deserves it so much. the inside of the clubs Bernabeu stadium with the caption: This will continue to be my home for two more years. A pleasure to let you know. Very, very happy. MElBOURNE, 9 Jan Alonsos current deal Spaniard Nicolas Almagro, expires at the end of the seeded 13th in the mens season and the lack of an draw, has pulled out of the announcement of a new contract until now had prompted speculation he might accept a lucrative offer from an English Premier League club. He has agreed a two-year extension with an option for another year and will be paid a net salary of 6 million euros ($8.2 million) a season, Spanish media reported.Reuters
Switzerlands Roger Federer (R) talks with Australian tennis legend Rod Laver at Rod Laver Arena during a charity event in Melbourne on 8 Jan, 2014.REUTErS
Nicolas Almagro has withdrawn from the #ausopen due to an ongoing shoulder injury. We wish him a fast recovery! a post on the tournaments Twitter feed said. Spains number three player behind world number one Rafa Nadal and third-ranked David Ferrer, 28-year-old Almagro reached the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park last year. Reuters
Brain-dead California teen gets surgery at new facility after court fight
SAN FRANCIsCO, 9 Jan A California girl who was declared brain-dead after a tonsillectomy last month and later moved to a new care facility after a legal battle has undergone surgery to insert feeding and breathing tubes, a family attorney said on Wednesday. Jahi McMath, 13, was transferred from Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, outside of San Francisco, where she had remained without brain activity for nearly four weeks, to an undisclosed Catholic care centre on Sunday night. Doctors at the new care center performed tracheostomy and gastrostomy surgeries, Christopher Dolan, attorney for the girls family, said in a Twitter message on Wednesday. She is doing very well, and now getting the treatment she should have gotten 28 days ago, Dolan said. Doctors are optimistic that her condition has stabilized. The case has drawn international attention and the
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A photograph of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is seen on a necklace in Oakland, California on 24 Dec, 2013. REUTErS support of pro-life groups, she went into cardiac arrest including one founded by and suffered brain swelling. The hospital declared the family of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who died her brain-dead on Decemin 2005 after a 15-year bat- ber 12 and made plans to tle over whether to keep her remove her from the venbody alive in a persistent tilator, but her family has fought in state and federal vegetative state. It was not clear when court to keep her on life the procedures took place. support. On Monday, Dolan told a A restraining order Press conference that Jahi barring the hospital from had wasted away at Chil- removing that life support dren's Hospital (and) that had been set to expire on she might not make it. Tuesday. An online funMcMath was admitted draiser launched by Jahi's to Childrens Hospital on 9 mother, Nailah Winkfield, December to have her ton- seeking to raise $20,000 to sils removed and for other pay for her daughter's transprocedures to address sleep fer exceeded $55,000 on apnea. After the surgery, Wednesday.Reuters
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MADRID, 9 Jan Lionel Messi came off the bench and scored twice on his return from injury and Cesc Fabregas also netted a double as Barcelona strolled to a 4-0 win at home to Getafe in their Kings Cup last 16, first leg on Wednesday. Messi was given a rousing ovation by the home fans when he replaced Andres Iniesta in the 64th minute at the Nou Camp, the World Player of the Year's first appearance since straining a thigh muscle in November. Dominant Barca, who rested a number of regulars, were already two goals ahead by the time the Argentina forward entered the fray after Fabregas headed
Barcelona's Lionel Messi falls after being fouled by Getafe during their Spanish King's Cup match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on 8 Jan, 2014.REUTErS There was a festive atmosphere despite the giant stadium being less than half full and former Barca coach Tito Vilanova, who is battling the cancer that forced him to step down at the end of last season, was watching from the stands. If they successfully negotiate next week's second leg in Madrid, Barca
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NAY PYI TAW, 9 Jan Thura U Shwe Mann, Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw, has said that a review of the constitution should not harm the current stability, peace making process and democratic transition. Speaking at three separate meetings with local people from Myaungmya, Labutta and Pathein districts in Ayeyawady Region today, the speaker suggested several objectives to improve the situation with-
committees are working together to build and establish basic infrastructures for the development of the townships, he added. He also urged the people to cooperate with them as part of efforts to conduct the poverty alleviation programmes laid down by the president. The speaker also pledged, on behalf of MPs, that they will work in the best interest of the people in terms of introducing laws. MNA Edited by KW
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Union Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin accepts Credentials of UNDP Resident Representative to Myanmar Ms. Rinata Lok Dassalien.MNA
NAY PYI TAW, 9 JanThe United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ms. Rinata Lok Dassalien presented her Credentials to the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin at the Ministry here this morning. After presenting the Credentials, they discussed matters relating to the current activities of the development programmes of the United Nations and future cooperation between Myanmar and the United Nations.MNA